I stand at least sort of corrected. I still think he took chances, and didn’t seem to dumb things down in his writing. Maybe his poetry is a better example, but from what I read (the plays and the analysis), he made things to be approachable for the masses, but also for the more higher-class and well-educated folks. I…

In Bob Iger’s memoir, ‌The Ride Of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years As C.E.O. Of The Walt Disney Company, the former C.E.O. discusses George Lucas’ disappointment with J.J. Abrams’ ‌film, citing a lack of “visual or technical leaps forward.” Iger agreed with his assessment but thought fan reactions were,…

Thanks for the sarcastic reply a year later. That’s super helpful.

And while I agree overall, I’d point out three things.

First, if enough people complain about a product or service, it would behoove the providers of said product or service to take note. Hence why I bothered to make the gripe.

Second, I generally DON’T…

His work is still pretty good. And why the hell am I defending him? Dunno.

Faith No More were far more successful with Mike Patton than they were with Chuck Mosley.

This isn’t Alice In Chains or Stone Temple Pilots swapping in a sound-alike - this would be like Talking Heads forging ahead sans David Byrne.

I almost feel like Avatar doesn’t count because it was more of a mini-series, or at least allowed to tell one cohesive story. Rick and Morty has to maintain the characters over a longer haul.

I haven’t seen all of Adventure Time nor Steven Universe, but know enough about both that they’re pretty rich, and Adventure Time…

He’s Evil Morty because he kills thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of versions of himself and Rick to achieve his ends, but all he really wants in the end is to escape the cycle that being on animated television series inevitably leads to; where relationships can’t really change that much because the comedy…

The “chosen one” at the center of a sci fi or fantasy property is usually the least interesting character and most devoid of personality. Can’t be giving them too many personality flaws or let them have inconvenient emotions, after all— that’s for the quirky cast all around them.

Isn’t that true of any art or style of any medium? That sounds less an indictment of comic book movies so much as an indictment of the overuse of the same formula. And in that sense, I totally agree with him. You saw that in music with Kurt Cobain saying, shortly before he died, how Nirvana had basically done the…

Yeah, I’m not a fan of the band either, and I can both acknowledge they had a pretty good measure of success for a Pop Punk band AND wish that Mark beats cancer.

I’m assuming they intended all these questions in S1 to be answered in subsequent movies

I get what you’re saying, but...it still felt lazy to me. Coming up with a bunch of jokes can be funny, but it felt a bit juvenile and, sort of like the Family Guy Peter knee injury gag, just...got kind of old. Individually, those jokes you mentioned were funny, and Morty’s reaction over the horse sperm extractor was…

Yes. Futurama was much more sentimental and character based. This was still good though in my opinion

And I might be wrong, but I think Roiland is not really interested in that kind of emotional/psychological side. He just wants to do hard sci-fi with an outrageous norm-defying angle.

We don’t even need to go to the extreme cases like the over-mentioned dog episode. Even Zoidberg has pathos in Futurama.

The characters do grow and change throughout the series, and the show has once or twice effectively played it to a dramatic kick. But the characters all still change based on what’s funny. [snip] it’s not unbelievable, it’s just unconvincing. [snip] Some of these are because of Universe jumps, but the end result is…

Morty went Akira last season to be with Jessica, and Morty went kill crazy trying to impress the lying cat girl during a purge.

But I just didn’t get the attempt to inject real sentiment into the final scene with Beth and Morty, let alone the commentary at the end indicating that they thought this was a real tearjerker. [snip] It’s not Futurama, where the jokes are all in service of building a character, so you can get misty eyed when a dog…

I think the biggest misstep this episode made was the inclusion of Planetina’s children. They ended up being pretty inessential to the plot when that time could’ve been spent giving more time to Beth and Jerry’s (especially Beth) reactions to the relationship.